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Quint: Mr. Hooper, that's the U.S.S. Indianapolis.


Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?

Martin: What happened?

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was

comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The

Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in

twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger.

Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You

tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our

bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh.

They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The

sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know

it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like

the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd

start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go

away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right

into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...

lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't

seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.

And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean

turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in

and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred

men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many

men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a

friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's

mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and

down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten

in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura

saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than

Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat

PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most

frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So,

eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out,

the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Martin: What's that?